I was out taking pictures of the old city today. And though I share my photographs freely, and with an open heart here on clerkmanifesto, I am, like any artist, terrified that someone may use one of my images without permission or without remunerating me to the tune of 1/1000th of a cent.
What if one of my pictures appears somewhere and no one knows I did it!!!!!
I mean, it could happen.
And though for 14 years now I have daily shared my life's work without anyone in particular passing it around, sharing it, or profiting on it, THE WORLD MAY COME TO ITS SENSES AT ANY MOMENT AND START SHARING AND STEALING MY WORK!
So I have decided to subtly encode my photos with my signature, er, copyright protecting watermark elements.
I hope it does not get in the way of your enjoyment of these lovely scenes from France.
“I'd decided the campus was just a place to hide. There were some campus freaks who stayed on forever. The whole college scene was soft. They never told you what to expect out there in the real world. They just crammed you with theory and never told you how hard the pavements were. A college education could destroy an individual for life. Books could make you soft. When you put them down, and really went out there, then you needed to know what they never told you.”
ReplyDelete- Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye